The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1887-04-25
A BURGLARS DEED
A BRAVE GIRLS STRUGGLE
With Burfy Negro Whom she Found Ran.
haoklng tho Houso-Aftor n Desperate
Fight ho drains hcr With u Poker.
" i Police Capture the Miscreaut,

LOUISVILLE, KY, April 24.-The bruta
assailant Of Jennie Bowman, tho white tlo
mestic who was 30 horribly and fatal,
beaten up by burglar in broad dayllph
last Thufday has been captured. The ar
rest was made last night and the guilt o
the man surely established by his ow,
confession. The police authorities with
held the news from the papers until ter
o'clock this morning when they had taker
the miscreant, who Is burly black negro
named Albert Turner, to Frankfort, fear.
Ing that he would be lynchsd here. Had
the details Of the capture become public
last night the negro would almost certain.
y have been hung by mob before morn.
ing, 80 incenaed are the people. 1t will
be remembered that the man entered the
house, located in the fashionable residence
portion Of the city, between the hours Of
II and II In the morning, having frat oh.
served that all OF the inmates had left,
While he was ransacking the place the
girl returned and p!uckily fought him.
giving him several severe gashes in the
face with tumbler. The brute knocked
her down, crushing in her skull with a
brass poker and otherwise disfguring her,
and then made his escape. No clue was
obtained until yesterday, when 1t was
found that negro had been lying for
several days secreted in a stable in the cen.
tral portion Of the city. He was arrested
but denied his guilt, Notwithstanding his
face was bandaged and had evidently been
cut with some rough, jagged instrument,
While Chief Of Police Whalen was ques-
tioning him, he was called out by the ar
rival Of prisoner wounded in q cutting
ecrape. After examining the wounds to
discover their extent he returned to his
office before he had washed his hands, aud
as he entered, the police officers who had
searched Turner's room came in. They
had found secreted there q pair OF silk
stockings and big silk handkerchief, the
only articles positively missed by Mrs. A.
Y. johnson, at whose house Jennie Bow
man was assaulted. Col. Whalen came
in with bis bloody hands lust
as the oAicsrs uprolled the hand
korchiet and stockings the mute
proof Of the terrible crime. The eight OF
them WAS too much for Turner. Then he
cried out: II done it; done it, but l
couldn't help it." He broke down com.
pletely and soon told the awful story. He
said he had gone to tho houae Tor the pur-
pose Of robblng, and had ransacked sever
al rooms when Mics Bowman came in.
The brave girl seized him at once, he said,
and he could not get away from her until
he struck her on the head. lie knocked
her down, but she sprang up again and
struck him with the glass. He
caught up the poker and struck
her again and again, but the glass was
shivered on his head and hands before
she was ovorpowered. He then said when
she fell for the last time he ran out OF the
back way aud escaped. having already
placed the handkerchief and stockings in
his pocket. Tho key he threw away q
short distance from the house, and this
was found yesterday afternoon by come
boys who had carried 1t to the police. The
girl still fingers at the point OF death with
slight hopes Of recovery.